News from The Volunteer Center, June 2016

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Published: 10 June 2016 10 June 2016

Summer Lunch Program!
The summer lunch program has begun! Free lunches are available at The Commons from 12-1 for kids ages 1-18. Bring your kids or send them over to eat lunch and hang out in the garden. Adults can also have a lunch for $3. In ad dition to enjoying lunches here, we're also looking for a volunteer to help us serve lunches on Thursday. If you're available and interested, give us a call at 388-2988.

Rooted: Youth Growing Change
Our summer interns arrived this week and we're off to a great start. So far, we've harvested, planted, dug new beds, learned about cooking beans, mapped out The Commons, and learned about the 4 leadership styles! We are so excited to have our 6 interns and are really looking forward to the rest of the summer. If you'd like to meet the interns or if you'd like to come see what we are up to stop by M,W, or F between 8-noon!

Know Someone Looking to Make a Difference?
Our Community Diaper Program is Seeking Volunteers for Ordering Process

This is Silver City and we all seem to bump into folks looking for that ideal volunteer opportunity. The Community Diaper Program needs only ordering logistics worked out to be put into play. This could be anyone from a parent currently utilizing the indispensible product to a retiree who remembers when they were made of cloth and a large van exchanged bleach scented fresh ones with the ones in a bucket with a tight lid. Ordering logistics will be worked out as a team effort including key Volunteer(s).

Below is a general description of what could be a financial game changer for many parents of young children in Grant County:

Orchestrated locally through GRMC First Born Program and The Volunteer Center
Through the program, diapers will cost $.13 rather than $.50.
Multiplies to over $1000 saving annually
Plain high quality diapers in a plain box with more diapers in each box lowers packaging cost
Manufactured by "Cuties" and sold by jet.com
Result of White House seeking non-legislative solution to a burgeoning problem expressed by low and moderate income parents

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